Divine Musical Instruments

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Evidence of Indian music and musical instruments can be traced to the beginnings of recorded history on the subcontinent, both in the Indus Valley and among the Indo-Aryans who settled into the region by approximately 1500 BCE. Throughout India’s long history, musical instruments have been intertwined with Hindu religious traditions to such an extent that to isolate the purely musicological features would be a disservice. And while th…